Learn Rust (for real this year). Increase my lifting PRs. Paint 40k models well. Honestly just get healthier. I've been lacking in 2024. Take up bow hunting because guns are too loud and if you ask me a bit gauche.
Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
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#52I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for year after year. So my goal is to learn to apply my full attention to the details, and to work hard on picking the right ones.
Factorio teaches this. You work on some tiny little thing, like getting a belt to balance properly, and move on to the next. By iterating that you can raise up this great machine, like pointillist art. Mark Andreessen claims that is Elon's secret sauce. I'm not so much hoping to accelerate inter planetary diaspora as I am to figure out how to keep my shoes from coming untied. I'm considering making one small step for man and ordering those elastic shoe laces, and solve a problem that I've been faffing around on since about age four. And then repeating that.
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#53Learning machine learning through maths and implementing some of the most common ML algorithms from scratch. Writing technical blogs - I find it easy to write topics where there is no right or wrong, just a perspective. But would like to write some technical stuffs i learnt over the year.
1. Your first one is also on my list. 2. I have written technical blogs and it is very rewarding when you see your article ranking at the top of Google, and people sharing it because it is genuinely useful. I may have some advice here. If you've never had a blog, you'll be surprised how easily you can rank in search engines and get visitors. Technical blogs that haven't been tainted by monetization aren't as many as…
That's really encouraging, I might start a blog as well.
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#54One of the skills I already have is the ability to work with difficult people or take on projects that need to be rescued and turn them around. That has been a valuable skill and has allowed me to develop a brand around it. However, that doesn't mean that I enjoy working with difficult people or cleaning up other people's messes. I find those people just as off-putting as everyone else; I just happen to be better at…
Isn't it fulfilling already because you get things done where others may fail? Also how do you do it? I'd love any tip you may have.
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#55Liveview Native and swiftui is on my wish list
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#56Sales, sales, sales. I've been in tech so long but as a founder this is where I need to really focus. ABC for me all the way in 2025.
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#57I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for…
Merry Christmas. Do you have a link to the Andreessen quote?
Re: Ask HN: What skills do you want to develop or improve in 2025?
#58I spend so much time rushing past moments, trying almost frantically to get through them by applying rules of thumb and not wasting attention. Of course if you do that too little you get stuck in the mud. But too much of it is a form of self-defeating panic. In survival mode you have to rush, eat things you normally wouldn't, put aside any non critical detail. But those details pile up when you stay in that mode for…
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#59Practical AI/ML, and not all the marketing buzz. Does anyone know of a good “AI/ML for Dummies” … from the basics. I do not want something that is just teaching me dozens of frameworks or toolkits.
Andrew Ng's courses tend to be widely recommended, including by someone I know who went from physics to ML. This was pre-gpt-3.5 release. It's classical ML.
Definitely Andrew Ng's courses, especially for concrete explanations.
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#60Writing blog posts and being ok with them not being perfect. I often have an idea for a post that would be interesting, but then as a learn more about the topic in order to write, I start to realize how much I don’t know. At this point, the post either dies or I spend way too long learning every irrelevant detail until I feel like I know enough. So I think the skill I am trying to learn is writing as a non-expert. Le…
I’ve been working on writing this year. It’s hard. I have countless posts or ideas for posts sitting there because I don’t like them for one reason or another.
For me I don’t collect metrics or really try to think that anyone might read a shred of it. I think that’s been helpful. And also just publish it. In the grand scheme it’s for you anyways to enjoy and develop. One piece of advice that I’ve gotten, is to commit to your points or idea. I think that’s can even include committing to uncertainty. You might need to revise it later, but done thoughtfully if you have readers, they should respect that. If not, well, without comments and metrics what does it matter?
Over the holiday break I’ve migrated to my own blog instead of a platform. So I’ve certainly found it enjoyable even if frustrating!